Over the weekend, I reread my absolute favorite book from when I was a kid -- A WRINKLE IN TIME. Sadly, the author, Madeleine L'Engle, passed away last week, which is what prompted me to run out to Borders and pick up a fresh new copy of my own, even though I know there's one buried somewhere in my daughter's closet. Well, who knows when that'll ever turn up. But I've remembered this book so fondly over the years -- how the whole concept of the tesseract boggled my mind when I first read it, and how much I wished it were possible! It wasn't just the science fiction that I loved, though, but the wonderful themes of loyalty and courage and fighting for what's right. I mean, those characters, brilliant though they were, were just kids, yet off they went to save their father and fight the evil threatening to take over the universe. We don't know by the end of the book that they've totally prevailed, but we feel better, hopeful. We feel that the forces of good stand a real chance of winning out over the forces of evil. And the remarkable thing is there's not a bit of violence in the story. The kids triumph by using their brains and their hearts. And although the book was written in 1962, it doesn't feel dated to me. There's a univeral charm to it that just doesn't, in my opinion, grow old or faded. I realized something else in the reread -- this book had its influence on my own writing, probably in ways only I can recognize, but beyond a doubt. I don't know why, but I find something especially cool in that.
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